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A clear view of who is responsible and a willingness to shout that view out in the marketplace. And on Akbar's behalf I really appreciate that he spoke up so forcefully against racism towards the Central Asian republics.

Tabakov, alas, was on the other side. According to his Wikipedia entry, he was a big Putin supporter, approved of the annexation of the Crimea and was given to making public statements about the inferiority of Ukrainian culture ("It's like my grandmother sometimes said: "Don't bother with them, these are dark and illiterate people.")